Since then, Omnicom has been criticized by observers for being light on new media agency brands and heavy on traditional shops.

Now, all Omnicom's Asian clients who need mobile advertising will be working with Amobee's platform, Amobee CEO Trevor Healy tells us. Amobee offers soup-to-nuts mobile marketing services, from standard display ad buys to applications to 3D media and tablet campaigns. The company has 200 employees in Singapore and San Francisco. Healy says Amobee is one of the biggest buyers of mobile ad inventory in Europe. His clients include Google, EBay, and Barnes & Noble.

Omnicom Asia CEO Barry Cupples tells us that Amobee will work in conjunction with Omnicom's existing mobile agency, Airwave:

Airwave is an OMG business unit which operates independently in the mobile space. Their role is to bring strategic value to our clients through expert knowledge and understanding of the mobile offering. Airwave [has] great platform, ideation teams, and execution experts within their framework to ensure a stronger offering to take to our clients and an end to end solution in quick-fast time.

The structure is simple … the Amobee platform is powering Airwave capabilities and the bench strength that they bring to the table in terms of resources and discipline, taken from a track record of success, is significant. With our own resources and talent, working with Amobee has given us a head start in a space we believe will dominate within platform media, content, and data provision. We will grow Airwave together as partners.

Because the venture is a revenue-share and not an ownership stake for Omnicom, Wren's historic fears are taken care of: All the owned-tech-asset risk is essentially outsourced to Amobee, yet Omnicom still gets a slice of the gross revenue.